Dear friends, it’s almost time to say goodbye to The Emerald City Book Review. I invite you all to join me in the New Year over at my other blog, Entering the Enchanted Castle. I’ll be moving all my book blogging activity over there, along with sharing thoughts about life, language, and other magical things. […]
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s been just over four years since I started this blog on January 1, 2014, and I’d love to celebrate with you. Stealing a fun idea from Nicole of Feed Your Fiction Addiction, I’m posting a list of 20 books on my TBR pile. If you win, you get to pick […]
This year, I’m excited to present a double giveaway — two books, in two different formats, thanks to Tachyon Publications. The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen, due to be released next week, is a master storyteller’s riff on various well-known tales including The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and of course the […]
I’m pleased to announce that once more Hendrickson Publishers has offered to sponsor a giveaway in connection with Elizabeth Goudge Day, which will take place on her birthday, April 24. This giveaway will be open internationally; if located in the US winner will receive book directly from the publisher, other countries from Book Depository. This […]
As 2016 draws to an end, it’s time for the Reading New England giveaway, celebrating a wonderful year of reading and discussing the literature of this region — which was also my third full year of blogging. It’s been so much fun to share it with you! The giveaway winner can choose a book or […]
What would Witch Week be without a great giveaway? This year, I have two fabulous sets of books that you can enter to win, all in keeping with the Made in America theme. And one giveaway is international – so read on! US entrants can win three gorgeous hardcovers from some of the most exciting […]
Over at the Broke and the Bookish, the Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Books you picked up on a whim,” but I’m twisting that slightly to feature new and forthcoming books that fit into my Reading New England challenge. Suddenly, there seem to be tons of fantastic New England books coming out, and I want […]
It’s Giveaway Day at Armchair BEA! This year, I’m delighted to be able to offer a new release that’s a perfect tie-in to my own Reading New England challenge. From the publisher’s decription: The Children is the mesmerizing story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of Charlotte, a reclusive […]
In one week we’ll be celebrating Elizabeth Goudge Day on her birthday, April 24. I look forward to reading your contributions and to sharing my own! And I’m so pleased that thanks to Hendrickson Publishers, I’m able to offer a giveaway (US only) of one of their recent paperback reprints of Goudge’s novels. Currently available […]
It’s been two years now since I published my first real review (of The Miss Buncle Books — my earlier posts were drawn from reviews I’d done for the Green Man Review). I’ve learned so much, met so many wonderful people, and enjoyed so many great books that I wouldn’t have discovered without this blogging […]